Clinton’s Bud Vece Shares Tales of Yesteryear Tonight

Celebrate The Power Of A Boy's Memory!

Hear the following story and more tonight.

Bud Vece remembers the principal at Pierson sending students home from school at 10 a.m. on September 21st in 1938 because a hurricane was on its way - something he had never heard of. On his slow way home Bud stopped at Snow's Block where he watched a whirlpool take a boat on the south side of the bridge and spit it into splinters out the other. Getting closer to home he stood looking out over the Indian River east of High Street holding onto a fence, watching the water rise and tasting the salt. When the fence began to shudder and his feet began to lift in the 100 mph winds, he remembers his neighbor Morris Austin tying a rope first to his porch, then to himself, and walking out to pull Bud back home. Since then Bud Vece has served the town of Clinton in many capacities but perhaps none as innovative as the civil preparedness program he created for both the town and the state, then voluntarily serving as Clinton's civil defense administrator for 20 years.(from Celebrate Clinton)